Add Page Up/Page Down/Page Left/Page Right navigation commands

[MarcelSt-Germain]

I, in arcmap we have navigation button we can use to navigate easily in layout or map.

Can't find the same in Pro so, add them.

[MarcelSt-Germain]

@AubriKinghorn 

Thanks, forgot to look there.  But, still lack in map view in navigate or with the quick menu where I put it.

Still lacking the arrow to navigate on tabs like ask.  Maybe in a future release.

[EthanJerome]

So I have finally had the opportunity to try out ArcPro version 3.5. I was very, very excited to hear the Page Up/Down/Left/Right buttons were being added to the navigation bar. Upon trying it out however, I am very saddened and frankly super disappointed to see that it only works in Layouts, but not the Map. For my work, I thoroughly review satellite imagery, panning over page by page, digitizing Human Footprint. For this work currently, I need to use the End, Home, Page Up or Page down keys on my keyboard and then also press the arrow keys several times to provide overlap with the previous page to ensure thorough review. In ArcMap, I simply had to press one button -- the Page Up/Down/Left/Right button, only with my mouse. Now I need to press 3-5 every page, and use both arms since I need both my mouse and keyboard for navigation.

I suffer from a condition where I am in constant pain. It may not sound like much, but the increase in inputs/hr in combination with absolutely requiring both my keyboard and mouse for work has made the switch from ArcMap to ArcPro absolutely terrible. I was really, really hoping the update would help my problem. The lack of Page Up/Down/Left/Right buttons to navigate the Map frame in ArcPro is a serious accessibility issue, and it really does negatively impact my quality of life at work. Please, if you can, add it to the map frame.

[MarcelSt-Germain]

Still a long way to be at par with arcmap.

[JaredGeiger]

ESRI is so close here. They really just need to add the functionality to the Map view. 

[NathanShephard]

Thanks all. Sorry we missed connecting those arrow commands to the map view - we're looking at it again now. We really appreciate the persistence and feedback on this forum.

I do have one technical discussion item for the group --> the PgUp / PgDn / Home / End navigation hotkeys were implemented to do page-navigations that exactly "seam" with the previous extent.  We did this several releases ago based on multiple user requests that they needed to know that each 'step' was guaranteed to include only new / unprocessed features (compared to the previous extent). The page-step / arrow-button commands exposed in Pro 3.5 for Layout views also uses this design (albeit with some extra protection to ensure edge-of-paper doesn't disappear).

In the notes above, however, EthanJerome is asking for partially-overlapping step distances "to provide overlap with the previous page to ensure thorough review".  This is what ArcMap did - some of the features on the edge of the view would still be in view after using the page-step buttons. We changed this on purpose in Pro to more accurately/precisely page-step across the map.

The discussion item: How important is a partially-overlapping page-step distance?

Something to keep in mind --> connecting the existing "full-step" commands to work with map views is a relatively small item for a near-future release... while adding a new option for configuring a partially-overlapping page-step-distance would need to be evaluated against other new dev tasks.

Thanks, Nathan.

[EthanJerome]

The partially overlapping page-step distance is very helpful for work that requires thorough review of imagery. Though the biggest benefit of adding the page up/down/left/right buttons to the map pane would be that I can page through the imagery without using my keyboard, allowing my to work exclusively with my mouse, saving a lot of arm movement throughout the day and thus reducing pain overall.

So a possible solution would be to add the page up/down/left/right buttons to the map view, and then if it is easier, add buttons for arrow up/down/left/right to the map view as well. That way we can then manually create the partial overlap ourselves as we have been doing since transitioning to ArcPro. Currently I use the mouse for digitizing human footprint features, but then need to move my hand over to my keyboard to page over every time -- to simulate the partial-overlap, for example, we'll use the Page Up key and then press the down arrow key 3-4 times to bring the page back down a bit to ensure we haven't missed any new human footprint features along the edge of the pages

However, having an option for configuring partially-overlapping page-step distance would be really nice since then to review the imagery, each page I would only need to click one time which definitely would cut down my overall inputs/hr which I would appreciate.

Another possible solution would be to add a popup on-screen keyboard pane to the program which could help folks who use the program with eye-tracking camera control as an added accessibility bonus.

Thank you for taking the time to ask about this and for your dedication to making ArcPro more accessible to everyone. I really appreciate it!

Regards,

Ethan

[NathanShephard]

Thanks for this excellent and detailed explanation, Ethan.

We'll start by looking at connecting the installed page-step ("arrow") commands to other view types - maps, scenes, reports, presentations. That would get you part of the way there, and we're hopeful we could get that into a very-near-future dev cycle.

For the "partial page-step size" option, I'd recommend you create a new user Idea for that. It would help give us an idea of how useful it would be (and how many users are interested in it).

Thanks!

-Nathan.